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International Business and Human Resource Management at Sheffield Hallam University - UCAS

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2025 - 2026
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Course summary

Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information. Course summary

  • Gain useful practical experience and solid theoretical expertise.
  • Develop the skills you need to pursue an exciting career.
  • Engage and network with real organisations via a live consultancy project.
  • Strengthen your independent learning, personal responsibility and initiative.
  • Attain the teamworking skills you need to successfully collaborate and communicate with others.
On this course, you'll approach your studies from a global perspective, and think about how business and HR is conducted across cultures and borders. Upon graduation, you'll be ready to apply for a range of exciting careers across the globe. How you learn All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive. Studying a range of topics through different learning methods, you’ll think about how international organisations approach human resource management. You study international business topics such as globalisation, multinational enterprises, cross-cultural management, international strategy, and global supply chains. In terms of the course’s HR strand, you’ll look at areas such as human resource contexts and strategies, and international employee relations. Our large and diverse teaching team combines practical industry experience and academic research expertise. This enables us to offer a course that blends real-world understanding and relevance with advanced subject knowledge and a truly international perspective. You learn through
  • lectures
  • seminars
  • workshops
  • live projects
  • simulations
  • peer learning
  • independent study
This course is delivered face-to-face over three semesters - teaching is scheduled based on the length of your course and the academic calendar. Live projects The course features an international consultancy project opportunity, supported by Venture Matrix, in which you carry out assessed projects based on real-world business solutions for local, national or global organisations. The project aims to enhance your business awareness and improve your employment prospects. The opportunity to communicate regularly with a company will be particularly beneficial to international students from the point of view of business engagement and real-world experience. This and other experiences will give you the chance to develop your practical skills in a real-world setting. Networking opportunities We have a dynamic, student-led HR Network, which provides excellent opportunities for sharing experience with alumni, sponsors, business leaders, human resource managers and consultants. Field trips Where possible, students are offered the opportunity to attend field trips and site visits to demonstrate the business environment, and to allow for useful real-world experiences and insight. Future careers This course prepares you for a career in :
  • account management
  • advertising
  • business development
  • retail buying
  • consultancy
  • marketing
  • human resource management
  • logistics management
  • management consultancy
  • market research analysis
  • product management
  • project management
  • retail management

Modules

Your elective choices will be subject to availability and to the core requirements of the course. As a result, selections may be limited to a choice between one of two or more specified electives, or there might be just one elective module in some instances. Compulsory modules Contemporary International Management Practice Dissertation: Hrm/Hrd Global Supply Chain Management Human Resource Management In Context International Consultancy Project 2 International Strategic Management Managing Employee Relations Principles Of International Business Research Methods Elective modules Organisations And Leadership Performance And Reward Management

Assessment method

Coursework Exam

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • AACSB International

Entry requirements

Good degree (minimum second class honours) or international equivalent, normally in a business-related subject Work experience will be considered. Exceptionally, candidates with insufficient academic qualifications but extensive relevant employment and managerial experience will be considered for admission to the course, if, in the opinion of the course leader, there is sufficient evidence to indicate that the individual has the potential to successfully complete the chosen course of study.

English language requirements

TestGradeAdditional details
IELTS (Academic)6you will need an IELTS score of 6.0 overall and a minimum of 5.5 in all skills, or a recognised equivalent

If English is not your first language you will need an IELTS score of 6.0 overall and a minimum of 5.5 in all skills, or a recognised equivalent.

Please click the following link to find out more about English language requirements for this course

https://www.shu.ac.uk/courses/business-and-management/msc-international-business-and-human-resource-management/full-time/

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9535 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9535 Year 1
Scotland £9535 Year 1
Wales £9535 Year 1
Channel Islands £9535 Year 1
Republic of Ireland £9535 Year 1
EU £17155 Year 1
International £17155 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

Our tuition fee for UK students on full-time undergraduate degree courses in 2025/26 is £9,535 per year. These fees are regulated by the UK government and therefore subject to change in future years. During your placement year you will pay a reduced fee of £1,200. If you are studying an undergraduate course, postgraduate pre-registration course or postgraduate research course over more than one academic year then your tuition fees may increase in subsequent years in line with Government regulations or UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) published fees. More information can be found at https://www.shu.ac.uk/study-here/terms-and-conditions-and-student-regulations under student fees regulations. Our tuition fee for International/EU students starting full-time study in 2025/26 is £17,155 per year. During your placement year you will pay a reduced fee of £1,200. Please refer to our website for up-to-date information on costs and fees: https://www.shu.ac.uk/study-here/undergraduate/fees

Sponsorship information

Scholarships, discounts and bursaries may be available to students who study this course.

International Business and Human Resource Management at Sheffield Hallam University - UCAS